European Cup top 32 draw: Manchester United faces the top spot in La Liga, Arsenal places a draw, Milan encounters a strong opponent

At 20:00 pm on December 14th, Beijing time, the draw ceremony for the top 32 of the 2020-21 Europa League was held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The guest of honor at this draw ceremony is former Portuguese international Maniche, who won the UEFA Cup with Porto in 2003.

In the end, among the wealthy teams, Tottenham drew the Austrian team Wolfsberg, Manchester United drew the La Liga leader Real Sociedad, Arsenal drew the Chinese and Portuguese Super League giants Benfica, and AC Milan against Red Star Belgrade.

This season’s Europa League top 32 were all formed in the middle of last week. Like the Champions League draw, the Europa League draw adopts the same Football Association avoidance principle and the same group avoidance principle. At the same time, Ukrainian teams will not draw Russian teams. The 32 teams are also divided into seeded teams and unseeded teams, with seeded teams playing against unseeded teams. It is worth mentioning that the current leaders of the five major leagues are all in the Europa League. They are Tottenham, AC Milan, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Sociedad and Lille.

The top 32 seeded teams in the Europa League include Manchester United (England), Arsenal (England), Tottenham (England), AC Milan (Italy), Roma (Italy), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) ), Bayer Leverkusen (Germany), Rangers (Scotland), PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), Leicester City (England), Napoli (Italy), Villarreal (Spain), Sager Dinamo Loeb (Croatia), Hoffenheim (Germany), Club Brugge (Belgium), Ajax (Netherlands).

The unseeded teams are Antwerp (Belgium), Benfica (Portugal), Braga (Portugal), Red Star Belgrade (Serbia), Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine), Granada (Spain), Kra Snowdar (Russia), Lille (France), Olympiacos (Greece), Salzburg (Austria), Slavia Prague (Czech Republic), Young Boys Bern (Switzerland), Molde (Norway), Real Sociedad (Spain), Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel), Wolfsberg (Austria).

The final draw for the top 32 is as follows:

Wolfsberg VS Tottenham

Dynamo Kyiv VS Club Brugge

Real Sociedad VS Manchester United

Benfica VS Arsenal

Red Star Belgrade VS AC Milan

Antwerp VS Glasgow Rangers

Prague Slavia VS Leicester City

Salzburg VS Villarreal

Braga VS Roma

Krasnodar VS Dinamo Zagreb

Young Boys VS Bayer Leverkusen